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Anon time travels (thelemmy.club)
submitted 8 months ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 21 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Will there be a chance that companies will optimize their applications perhaps?

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Absolutely not. Just look at games these days. Number one complaint: everything runs poorly. Optimisation is an afterthought. If it runs like shit? We’ll blame the customer. A lot of games now run like trash on even the most high end graphics cards. Companies don’t seem to give a shit.

    Vote with your wallet I guess.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I realized recently that I expect pretty much everything purchased lately to break within months, no matter what it is. Buy a brand new shirt? It’ll have a thread unraveling on the first day you wear it. Buy a tray table? It’ll collapse after a few uses. I was gifted a tumbler for Christmas and the lid is already cracked. Everything is made so cheaply that nothing lasts anymore.

    I think about how, generations ago, things were built solid. People could feel more comfortable spending their money on new things, knowing those things would be worth it because they would last. Today, it’s a shitshow. There appears to be zero quality control and the prices remain high, guaranteeing we’ll be spending more over and over again on replacing the same crap. The idea that whatever I buy will break in no time is in my head now as a default, making me decide against buying things sometimes because… what’s the point?

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Thats because last quarter profits were up 10% and now this quarter they MUST be up 11% or the company is a complete failure and all the shareholders will go elsewhere. But don't cut too much, the following quarter it better be up 12%!

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    I hear ya.

    These days I only buy things that have years of good reviews, or that I know how to inspect for quality issues. Learn what makes a good shirt, a good knife, a good tool… what are the signs of quality and signs of cost cutting that you should be aware of? A consumer really does need to do a bit of homework to find the diamond in the dung pile.

    I also really love old gear and tech for that reason. Fewer things to break and easy to fix. I use film cameras that are older than I am, often by decades. It might be old, but at least it’ll keep fucking working AND can be fixed if it doesn’t.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Still haven't touched borderlands 4 after that bullshit press release. If a thousand dollar computer isn't enough to play your game, get fucked.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If a thousand dollar computer isn’t enough to play your game, get fucked.

    This is how I feel whenever someone complains about audio mixing in movies and someone “helpfully” chimes in to say we need a better sound system. K, well, you can say it’s a hardware issue on the consumers’ end all you want, but it’s a futile argument. Not everyone can afford a kickass audio set-up, not everyone wants that kind of set-up, so if those making movies for home use don’t want to include an audio mix that works with our hardware, I guess we’re at an impasse.

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